Google has made a major change to the way secure search works for signed in users of its services. If a user is signed into a Google account, any search performed will now be done on a secure socket layer )SSL( and will no longer pass the search t.

November 17, 2011 is the date Motorola Mobility stockholders will vote on the company's acquisition by Google for $12.5 billion, or $40 a share, TechCrunch reported. Shareholders who held stock on October 11 will get to vote. Since the offer was.

Speaking with John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo touched on a number of recent developments for the social media giant, dispelling a few rumors as he went. Twitter is now hosting 250 million tweets per d.

For months we've heard rumors that Hulu has been up for grabs, with potential buyers including Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Dish Network and DirecTV. But now Hulu has called that the sale off after months of complex negotiations. But might Google .

Google ran over 20,000 experiments in 2010 to come up with the 500 modifications they felt best improved search results for users. While there are over 200 factors, or signals, these constant updates affect their relevance and how they impact sear.

It's coming up on a year since Matt Cutts announced that social signals are absolutely used as ranking factors for your content, but that's not what I'm going to talk about here. I'm going to talk about other ways th.

Fall is officially here and seasonal advertising is kicking in. As usual, when we start the march toward the holidays, the advertisers dust off their PPC jackets and see what tricks they can pull out of the sleeves to improve upon their performanc.

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GoAnimate, which offers free web applications that enable marketers to create their own animated videos, has released of a new collection of political characters and backgrounds focused on the United States Presidential election. The new collect.

YouTube is getting a batch of hot new features, including a "merch store" for music partners; a new sign-up process for indie labels; the option for users to integrate their YouTube and Google+ accounts; and a new "related videos" format. The Me.

Google announced that several products will be shut down by January 15, 2012. This includes Google Buzz, Code Search, the University Research Program for Google Search, iGoogle social features, Jaiku, and several APIs associated with these service.

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Approximately 100 million tablets and smartphones are in the marketplace. As more and more of these devices get into the hands of consumers the way in which search market evolves for both consumers and brands is critical. For consumers, this spa.

Everyone's primary goal in search optimization is to get their own site's content to rank first )or as close as possible to first( for specific keywords. If, however, you are having a bit of trouble doing that, it doesn't hurt to help content.

Google is about to launch its first online safety campaign. Teaming with the Citizens Advice Bureau )CAB(, Google will promote "safe computer usage" for users: by logging out of computers when they're finished using them, specialized c.

Google is giving more trust to user reports on the address, hours, and operating name of businesses. Submitted updates will show up regardless of business verification, though business owners will receive a notice and have the option to halt the c.

25 percent of the top 1000 websites have adopted Facebook plugins, with over 65 million Likes and home page Shares generated since the last major Facebook update a year ago. As Facebook evolves from social graph to Open Graph, marketers continue t.

Google's Cloud-based music service may soon give users both the option to buy music and have the highest quality version of their song played back. However, Google is still struggling to win over the labels. What Google Music Is Looking For Ac.

A plethora of articles have been written about the convergence of SEO and PPC, most of them fairly elementary. I think everyone understands that, at least from a keyword level, each channel can )and should( inform and reinforce the other. That ide.

It's October, which means that football season is in full effect! Suffice to say I was eagerly anticipating a resolution to the NFL lockout to ensure there would actually be a season. I can't even begin to wonder what I would do on F.